Egyptian authorities Sunday released a renowned human rights lawyer arrested after protests against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia. Malek Adly had been held in pretrial detention since being arrested by plainclothes police on May 5. His defense ...

The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Cairo on Wednesday for its penultimate stop as the solar-powered plane nears the end of its marathon tour around the world. After the two-day flight from Spain, just one final leg lies between it and its final destination, ...

An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced former President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties. The court acquitted Morsi of charges of having supplied Qatar with classified documents but sentenced him to ...

Amid Cairo’s cramped mass of humanity and traffic, with its incessant honking and haggling, visitors will be hard-pressed to find some solitude. However, if you’re willing to go off the beaten tourist track a bit, serenity can be found. The expansive Mosque of Ahmed ...

While talking to the members of indie rock band Cairo, I can’t help but feel their sense of excitement. After all, this is their first interview ever. Explaining the ideas behind their debut album, “Same as Before,” the four guys, who are all in ...

A bomb blast killed six people, including three Egyptian policemen, when a team of officers on Thursday raided an apartment in Cairo suspected to be a militant hideout, police said. The explosion in the capital’s Al-Haram district, near the pyramids, came ahead of Monday’s ...

Authorities in the German city of Cologne said Tuesday that the number of criminal complaints arising from a rash of violence targeting women on New Year’s Eve had risen to 561. At the start of the week, prosecutors had reported 516 police reports by ...

Thousands of Russians vacationers were heading home from Egypt on Monday aboard special planes sent by Moscow, which has suspended all flights to Egypt amid security concerns in the aftermath of the Oct. 31 plane crash of a Russian airliner that killed all 224 ...

Renowned Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal el-Ghitani died Sunday at a hospital in Cairo where he had been in a coma for more than three months, his wife said. El-Ghitani, 70, was originally admitted to the El-Galaa military hospital after he faced difficulty in ...

Egypt’s state-run news agency says Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 16 others have been sentenced to life in prison on charges related to the killing of five people in an attack on a police station in 2013. The news agency’s report Saturday says ...

A massive predawn car bomb by Islamic State extremists blasted the facade off a police headquarters Thursday and rattled windows across Cairo — wounding 29 but causing no deaths. The attack reflected a strategy of the group’s branch in Egypt, which has targeted authorities ...

Egypt’s state news agency says a scorching heat wave over the past week has killed at least 93 people and temperatures are expected to remain high in the coming days. The Mideast has been hit by a heat wave since late July. Egyptian summers ...